A History of Crime in England: From the accession of Henry VII to the present time

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Smith, Elder & Company, 1876

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Forestalling regrating and engrossing
85
Edward Duke of Buckingham
89
Effects of the general progress seen at the end of the Tudor period
112
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113
Compurgation and superstition
115
And from the Gunpowder Treason
122
Reginald Scot and James I on witchcraft
125
sumptuary laws in general
144
Growing tolerance how restrained
152
His faults were the inherited faults of his
153
Growth of wealth and population
160
In what sense Charless execution in public was a martyrdom
166
Illustration from the case of Naylor
170
New attempts to diminish drunkenness
189
The suicides of the period illustrate an immutable physiological
195
Trial of the regicides
201
Jeffreys one of a numerous
209
popular exaggerations
212
The king informed of the pretended Popish Plot
224
He falls and is found guilty of perjury
230
Slow progress of scepticism respecting the possibility of the offence
238
the apprentices gradual disuse of the knife
244
Clandestine marriages in the sanctuaries and elsewhere
254
Riots routs and affrays become less common
260
Comparison of smugglers and river thieves with knights who robbed
265
the pirates laws pirates and crusaders compared
266
Ancient tendencies shown in the prevalence of highway robberies
274
modifications of privilege
280
Public opinion respecting the stake for women
287
Many ancient restrictions on commerce still enforced
294
Corruption of statesmen and forgery disclosed by enquiries into
303
Bill of Pains and Penalties
310
Conduct of Pelham
313
Howards opinion of public punishments
358
laws to protect inventors and authors
365
Whipping of men and women
380
The mutinies at Portsmouth and the Nore
386
importation of base coin
392
trademarks
400
Progressive changes in the tone of society and in the criminal laws
406
Relation of the extremely rich to the extremely poor important in
412
Pauperism an inherited vice not easily eradicated
419
The Statute of Vagabonds under Edward VI
523
Aid of science in detecting and preventing crime
531
Tendencies
532
Instruction is even in this aided by other causesby education in
538
Stateinstruction might thus effect a revolution by which the criminal
544
Check upon the abuse of the civil power when moral teaching is dis
556
The poorlaws in their relation to individual responsibility
559
Importance of the treatment of paupers in relation to crime and educa
563
Greater evils from the same point of view to be apprehended from
565
Reformatory effect of such a system
571
The habitual or brutal criminal might be restrained by other means
579
want of selfcontrol a cause no less than
587
Crime might be diminished the army and navy strengthened
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State of prisons worse in Howards time than under the Roman Empire 356
645
plunder in port effect of police
650
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Part I
665
Persistence of the feudal spirit shown in attempts to deal with the poor
668
357
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Table showing the criminal tendencies of the Irish in the principal
672
to crime
677
Prosperity Adversity Drunkenness and Crime
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Improvement of internal communications canals roads etc in relation
683
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684
CHAPTER X
692
The amount of homicide an index to the amount of crimes of violence
695
Treasons connected with religion in the reigns of Henry VIII Edward
697
the sanctuaries of England
701
Mutilation punishment for striking in the kings palace
703
General sense of security in spite of temporary and local exceptions
706
400
712
New definitions of treason
716

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第 73 頁 - ... grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about, as a manifestation of his wicked life, and due punishment received for the same.
第 139 頁 - I take it wholly upon myself — my blood be upon my own head ; and as I must make answer to the God of heaven presently, I declare I am as free of witchcraft as any child. But being delated by a malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a witch ; disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison or ever coming in credit again, through the temptation of the devil I made up that confession on purpose to destroy my own life, being weary of it, and...
第 666 頁 - ... only ideas of pleasure, of abundance, and of security. It is this right which has overcome the natural aversion to labour — which has bestowed on man the empire of the earth — which has led nations to give up their wandering habits — which has created a love of country and posterity. To enjoy quickly — to enjoy without punishment — this is the universal desire of man...
第 163 頁 - On that day sevennight, his sores upon his back, ear, nose, and face, being not yet cured, he was whipped again at the pillory in Cheapside, and had the remainder of his sentence executed upon him, by cutting off the other ear, slitting the other side of his nose, and branding the other cheek*.
第 163 頁 - He was severely whipped before he was put in the pillory. " 2. Being set in the pillory, he had one of his ears cut off.
第 211 頁 - Be undaunted and courageous; be sure to execute the law to the utmost of its vengeance upon those that are known — and we have reason to remember them — by the name of Whigs!
第 72 頁 - ... shall take the same slave, and give him bread, water, or small drink, and refuse meat, and cause him to work, by beating, chaining, or otherwise, in such work and labour as he shall put him to, be it never so vile.
第 577 頁 - Christian country in the nineteenth century, there remains nothing more to be said, except that the 'cat' is, in many cases, too merciful an instrument. If, however, the object of punishment is not vengeance, but the prevention of breaches of the law, it seems useless, so far as example is concerned, to flog a prisoner within the prison walls. The whole power of such a deterrent as flogging (if it is to be regarded as a general deterrent) must be in the vividness with which it can be presented to...
第 188 頁 - ... manner run to and fro, and kicked up and down in the common highway and street within the said county and town, called the High Street, a certain ball of ; leather, commonly called a foot-ball, unto the great annoyance and incumbrance of...
第 332 頁 - I have been this morning at the Tower, and passed under the new heads at Temple Bar," where people make a trade of letting spyingglasses at a halfpenny a look.